By Degrees - A Plugged-In World, With a Hunger for Electricity - Series - NYTimes.com
Worldwide, consumer electronics now represent 15 percent of household power demand, and that is expected to triple over the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency, making it more difficult to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.Climate Alarmists rush to judgment on dead walruses, ignore other possibilities « Watts Up With That?
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Most energy experts see only one solution: mandatory efficiency rules specifying how much power devices may use.
Nobody, including me, wants to see our Alaskan wildlife die or be killed through greed, stupidity, or carelessness. But before we go slapping on that catch all label of “global warming did it”, even before the primary wildlife investigators of this weeks event get a chance to get on the ground and determine the cause, we owe it to the animals and to ourselves to look at all the possibilities and to wait to determine the true cause before we go laying blame.Australian Climate Madness: Astonishing quote from "The Age"
Otherwise, walrus poaching might just get a free pass under the guise of “global warming did it”.
There is not, now, much value in arguing about the science of climate change. Even if it's wrong, enough people now believe it that it may as well be right.
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